The impulse of the empire had failed until the Emperor was no more than one of a number of competing princes, and the dream of Christendom also was a fading dream. ... They postured a little as republicans, and sneered at the divine pretensions of monarchy; but the republicanism that appealed to Voltaire was the crowned republicanism of the Britain of those days, in which the king was simply the official head, the first and greatest of the gentlemen. ... And indeed in that period of the interregnum there was very little life or light in either the orthodox Christianity of Rome or in the or...

• Word Count: 2009
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Graduate

The intense personal relationship of Gertrude and Hamlet is constructed in a form in which Hamlet's fixation is provided little context, allowing for the development of speculative interpretations. The established extended metaphor of the "unweeded garden" resonates throughout the princes' cautioning to Gertrude, "not to spread the compost on the weeds". ...

• Word Count: 875
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• Grade Level: Graduate

An English schoolmaster named John Brisley and a Bohemian educational reformer named John Amos Comenius both despaired that the students at the lower levels of education could only write Latin and had little understanding of the meaning of the texts or practical uses of learning. ... In his work Reflections, he wrote that acquiring more superficial or "decorative" skills such as good penmanship, dancing, singing, horse riding and dressing well would lend dignity to an educated man and help him to impress princes. ...

• Word Count: 1240
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• Grade Level: Graduate

Charges and counter -charges between factions of the Diet did little to aid its reputation, 'with opposition politicians who schemed to destroy a cabinet trying to discredit cabinet officers and their Diet supporters by charging them with indictable offences'11 keeping the vicious circle going. ... It appears that the Diet's lower house was little other than a constitutional nicety, its wings easily clipped by the conservative elements in Japanese politics – the structural makeup as defined by the Meiji constitution made it so. ...

• Word Count: 2458
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Graduate